Make Way for the ‘One-Minute City’.
While the “15-minute city” model promotes neighborhood-level urban planning, Sweden is pursuing a hyper-local twist: a scheme to redesign every street in the nation.
Meanwhile in Vienna, Austria, we will hear about this 50 years later.
Update: Maybe sooner? Wien will bei Grünraum nachrüsten.
Update to the update.
Even before Hardin’s ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ was published, however, the young political scientist Elinor Ostrom had proven him wrong.
Ignored non-male research all the way down.
Andew Yang and the Age of Blah.
The idea is don’t take the bait and then you can remain superior to it all. But, see, that’s how they get you. Then you’re in on their little game where everyone is having “a good time.” Yes, you too are now part of the most boring carnival in human history.
Once there were computers. Then there was batch processing, and renting out computer time. Then there was timesharing, with billing-on-demand. Then there were personal computers. Then there was the cloud. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Tech Lives Matter – Diversity in the Technology Industry.
It's great to see the moral compass evolve when we talk about how technology affects the environment. Because if the government will not hold big technology companies accountable then we have to—the workers.
Lügen sind keine alternativen Fakten, Impfgegner:innen keine verfolgten Jüd:innen.
Sprache ist eine kapriziöse, mitunter tückische Gefährtin. Man kann mit ihr eine Welt gewinnen; man kann auch eine Welt verlieren.
Uniting the mysterious worlds of quantum physics and music.
The notions of beauty and symmetry have allowed the likes of string theory and supersymmetry to survive for decades with absolutely no evidence of their veracity, simply because they’re too beautiful not to be true.
The hell to link to that Instagram is.
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Facebook?
In the first quarter of this year, Facebook’s net income nearly doubled, while revenue rose only about 50 percent over last year’s figures. That doesn’t sound like a company that is pouring money into content moderation. It sounds like a company expanding its profit margins.
‘Success Addicts ’ Choose Being Special Over Being Happy.
Achilles, success addict par excellence, chooses death.